I'm completely new to Microsoft installer and have installed advinst.msi, and I'm wondering how to use it.
I have to group Jboss where my Java application is deployed and postgres database and want to create an .exe file and deploy it to clients windows system.
Where the client can run the .exe file and start the application.
The Jboss package you can add a as a prerequisite. This will make Advanced Installer to install it when you install your application, see the link from above.
To deploy a database you have two options. Either you execute an SQL script that creates and populates it, as in this SQL scripts execution tutorial, or you deploy directly the binary files of your database, by placing them in the target folder from Files and Folders page, as you do with a normal file. The second option will make your installer to copy the files into the desired folder upon installation, so you database manager/explorer can access it.
To have all this bundled into a single executable you need to go to Media page and set the package output type to "Single setup EXE". From there you can also customize the EXE name, icon and output folder.
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I want to uninstall MYSQL workbench in my PC.after uninstall & while deleting MYSQL, it shows the action cant be completed because of the folder or a file in it is open in another program,Close the folder or file and try again .
I always try to delete folder but I couldnt.
You can't delete the folder because mysql service is using it.
Mysql workbench, by default installs mysql as a service, which is the recommended way to run mysql.
On Windows, the recommended way to run MySQL is to install it as a Windows service, so that MySQL starts and stops automatically when Windows starts and stops. A MySQL server installed as a service can also be controlled from the command line using NET commands, or with the graphical Services utility. Generally, to install MySQL as a Windows service you should be logged in using an account that has administrator rights.
From dev.mysql
On Windows, if you have used an installer to install something, you should uninstall it from Add Remove Programs.
Not only will its installer stop the service, and remove all files but also tidy up registry entries.
I was packaging an windows application installer by NSIS.
An postgresql binary file was included in this install package.
But the official binary file is too large 172MB.
The zip archive is download from
https://www.enterprisedb.com/download-postgresql-binaries
The inside structure is like
pgsql
bin
doc
include
lib
pgAdmin4
share
StackBuilder
symbols
In my opinion, pgAdmin4 is no need for my installer.
There are only CRUD operations in between application and SQL.
If I remove this directory, the binary zip can down to 41MB.
So could I simply remove directory pgAdmin4 and re-compress
to achieve this?
So could I simply remove directory pgAdmin4 and re-compress to achieve this?
Yes, and you can remove StackBuilder too if you want. Also symbols if you don't want to do in-place debugging if the postgres server crashes.
Please, please install your bundled PostgreSQL on a non-default port (not 5432) and if you run it as a service use a name associated with your application, so users know where it came from. See Installation of postgresql with NSIS . Put the PostgreSQL install directory within your app install directory.
When installing Oracle SQL Developer (after having already installed Java JDK), the first run of Developer requests to "Please specify the path to the Java JDK home".There are no problems selecting the JDK folder manually, however I am wanting to automate this part of installation/initial start-up.
Setting Environment Variables JAVA_HOME and/or PATH to the JDK location (or the bin folder) does not alleviate the dialogue.
Is there a way to automate the selection of the JDK folder during installation / before first run of Oracle SQL Developer?Otherwise is there a location, the value input into this dialogue is stored?
According to this post, it appears that as of Oracle SQL Developer Version 4, "...to accommodate shared Windows machines, we now look into the roaming profiles directory in the Application Data folder". By running a batch file to edit / automate writing the installed Java path into this file, it is possible to automate the initial dialogue box (well, make it disappear).
What would be the best way to deploy upgrades to a piece of software with the following requirements:
The upgrade:
Must be run from a client machine, not a server.
Must Show a dialog to select a network location and copy files to a share.
Must show a dialog to enter SQL Server connection information and the upgrade must connect to SQL Server to run an upgrade script.
Must not change anything on the client machine from which the upgrade is run. (Nothing in Add/Remove programs, registry, etc. I.e. no Windows Installer.)
Must not rely on any additional dlls or frameworks. The user must be able to download a single file and run it from Windows XP SP2 without having to install anything else.
Some things I have looked into:
Batch files (can’t show a dialog to allow the user to enter connection information)
OSQL (can’t show a dialog and can’t copy files)
WiX (runs on top of Windows Installer so it puts things on the client machine from which it is run)
Custom C#/VB app (requires .NET framework)
Winzip/WinRAR (can't show a dialog, can’t run SQL Scripts)
If you don't want to rely on any dlls and frameworks, you should make a native app, this can be, for example, custom winrar sfx (you can run additional scripts after extraction, this can be a batch that executes sqlcmd).
I would like to know how to deploy or what are the steps that are involved to deploy a classic asp website in IIS 6/7
Can we create an installer for the existing project?
You should consider using Web Deploy http://www.iis.net/download/WebDeploy, it can deploy your ASP applications, setup the IIS application and other settings (like APplication Pool, etc), and even include COM objects, Registry keys and more.
Even better you can parameterize content like Connection Strings, Title, settings, so that at install time you can pass those paramters either through the command line or the User Interface.
It can deploy between IIS 6 and IIS 7 and even help you compare existing deployed versions with packaged versions (zip files), or other servers.
Make sure a virtual directory has been set up in IIS.
Copy all files into the virtual directory
If applicable, register required DLLs with regsvr32.exe
Run.
Hope this helps.
EDIT: I see you want to make an installer for the application. Have a look here for a guide on how to do it. To my knowledge there isn't anything that is "plug and play" for installing your project; you will have to make it.
Copy the files to the virtual folder. If you have any depending dll's or exe's make sure to install them too.
As you said you may have to create an installer that will do this works to you. There is a lot of installers out there, like Inno Setup and Windows Installer.
If its just ASP and you have no DLL's or COM Components then you would just have to copy all the files to a Virtual Directory under approot or wwwroot. XCopy copies all directories, subdirectories and files. As for an installer, you wouldn't really need it but it would be useful if you make one that sets up the virtual directory, copies the files and configures any host headers if needed.